The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-29
Heart Of stone, relent, reien&
Touched by Jesus cross subdueds
See his body, mangled, rent,
rvowa~aH with N gore rf hind

watered. And / would that this morning
my word, blessed Of God, might remove
the hindrances to your getting up to the
Gospel we'll Yea, I take it for granted
that the work IS done, and now, like ORR
entail shepherds, proceed to water the
sheep.
Come, all We thirstyl You have an I'M
defined longing in your soul You tried
money making; that did not satisfy you.
You tried ONCE under Governments that
did not satisfy you. You tried pictures
and sculptures; but works Of art did not
satisfy you.
You are as much disconnected with this
life as the celebrated French author who
felt that he could not any longer endure
the misfortunes Of the world, and who
said:
'At four o'clock this afternoon I shall
put an end to my own existence. Mean
time, must toll on up to that time for
the sustenRnce Of my family"
And he wrote on his book until the
clock struck four. when he folded up his
manuscript, and, by his own hand, con-
Guided his earthly life. There are men
in this house who are perfectly discon-
tented. Unhappy in the past, unhappy
to-day, to be unhappy forever, unless you
come to this Gospel well. This satisfies
the soul with high, deep, aIl-absorbing
and eternal satisfaction. 1t comes and it
offers the most unfortunate man 80
much Of this world as is best for him, and
throws all Heaven in the bargain. The
wealth Of Croesus. and all the Stewards,
and all the Barings, and all the Roths-
chlds is only a poor, miserable shilling
compared with the eternal fortunes that
Christ offers you today.
In the far East there was King who
used once year to get on scales, while
on the other side of the scales were
placed gold, and silver, and gems. In
| deed, enough were placed theI to balance
the King; then, at the close Of the weigh
ing, all those treasures were thrown
| among the populace. But Christ to-day
steps on one side the scales, and on the
other side are all the treasures of the
universe, and He says:
s'AIl are yours-all height, all depth,
all length, all breadth, all eternity; all
are yours"
We don't appreciate the promises Of
the Gospel When an aged clergyman
was dying-a man very eminent in the
Church--aiyoung theological student stood
/ by his side, and the aged man looked up
and said to him:
Cant you give me some comfort in my
dying hourf'
''No," said the young man 'T can't
talk to you on this subject; you know all
/ about it, and have known it 50 long"
'Well,' said the dying man, 'ijust re-
/ cite to me some promises"
The young man thought a moment, and
he came to this promise:
The blood OF Jesus Christ cleanseth from all
sin.
And the old man clapped his hands, and
| in his dying moment said;
"That's just the promise I have been
waiting for:
The blood OF Jesus Christ cleanseth from all
| sim"
Oh, the warmth, the grandeur, the mag
nifcence Of the promises.
Come, also, to this Gospel well, all We
troubled. do not suppose you have es-
| capped. Compare your view of this life at
fifteen years of age with what your view
| is oft at forty or sixty or seventy. What
a great contrast of Opinioni Were you
right then, or are you right nowi Two
! cups placed in your hands, the one a
| sweet cup, the other a sour cup. A cup
| of Joy and a cup of grief. Which has been
the nearest to being full, and out of which
have you the more frequently partaken9
What different place Greenwood is from
| what it used to be. Once it was to you a
/ grand city improvement, and you
| went out on the pleasure excursion, and
| you ran laughingly up the mound, and
| you criticised in a light way the epitaph.
But since the day when you heard the
bell toll at the gate when you went in
| with the procession it is a sad place, and
/
suffuse the eye and overmaster the
/ heart
Oh, you have had trouble, trouble,
trouble. God only knows how much you
| have had. 1t is a wonder YOU have been
able to live through it. 1t is a wonder
your nervous system has not been shat
/ tered and your brain has not reeled
| Trouble, trouble. If I could gather all
the griefs, of all sorts, from this great
/ audience, and could put them in one scroll,
neither man nor angel could endure the
recitation. Well, then, what do you wantl
| Would you like to have your property
back againi
mo" you say, as Christian man, 81
| was becoming arrogant, and / think that
is why the Lord took it away. I DOM
| want to have my property back"
Well, would you have your departed
friends back againl
t'No," you say, 81 couldn't take the re-
| sponsibility OF brin ging them from a tear
less realm to a realm of tears. Icouldn't
do it."
Well, then, what do you WANT A thou
sand voices in the audience cry out:
Comfort, give US comfort"
For that reason I have rolled away the
| stone from the Wells mouth Come, all
We wounded of the flock, pursued of the
| wolves, come to the fountain whore the
| Lords sick and bereft ones have come.
'Ah," says some one, "you are not old
| enough to understand sorrows. You have
not been In the world as long as 1 have,
and you can't talk to me about my mis-
fortunes in the time of old age. "
Wen, may not have lived as long as
you, but have been great deal among
| old people, and I know how they feel
about their falling health, and about their
departed friends, and about the loneli-
ness that sometimes strikes through their
| souls. After two persons have lived to-
| gether forty or fifty years, and one of
| them is taken way, what desolatiOnI
1 shall not forget the cry of the lat
Rev Dr. De Witt, of New York, when he
TODD by the open grave of his beloved
wife, and after the obsequies had ended,
he looked down into the opon place and
said;
Farewell, my honored, faithful and
beloved wife The bond that bound us is
severed. Thou art in glory, and am
here on earth. We shall meet again.
FAREWELL FarewellP
To lean on a prop for fifty years, and
then have il break under you'll There
were only two wears difference between
the death of my father and mother, After
my mothers decease, my father used TO
go around as though looking for some
thing; he would often get up from one
room, without any seeming reason, and
go to another room; and then he would
take his cane and start out and some one
| would say:
"Father, where are you goingl"
| He would answer: "I don't know ex-
| actly where / am going"
] Always looking for some thing. Though
he was a tender-hearted man, / never
| 81 him cry but once, and that was at
u burial Of my mother. After sixty
years living together it was hard to part.
And there arc aged people to-day who
are feeling just such pain as that. 1 wan
to tell them there is perfect enchantment
in the promises OF the Gospel ;and / com e